postnotum

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postnotum (noun; plural -ta; Latin post, after; Greek notum, back): (Arthropoda: Insecta) The phragma-bearing plate in the dorsum of a pterothoracic segment, originating from the acrotergite of the following notum

See also: mesopostnotum, metapostnotum.